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Synonyms:
- erudition, limpidity, understandability, lucidity, knowledge, coherence, cogency, clearness, perspicuousness, distinctness, genius, intelligence, clear, comprehension, crispness, pellucidity, wisdom, straightforwardness, consistency, profundity, lucidness, comprehensibility, astuteness, mastery, acumen, legibility, clarity, limpidness, pellucidness, explicitness, plainness, judgment, homeliness, intelligibility, sophistication, sagaciousness, intellect, directness
Examples:
- - He was a student of Lavater, and prided himself on his perspicuity in reading character. - "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab", Fergus Hume
- - He received so much praise on all sides for his presumed perspicuity, that he soon began to think that he had believed in Fitzgerald's innocence by a calm course of reasoning, and not because of a desire to differ from every one else in their opinion of the case. - "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab", Fergus Hume
- - 133. " Hitherto we have considered sentences, under the heads of perspicuity, unity, and strength." - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown
Antonyms:
- disjointedness, unclarity, vagueness, indistinctness, equivocation, incomprehensibility, indirectness, obliquity, obscureness, unintelligibleness, incomprehensibleness, obliqueness, opacity, unintelligibility, ambiguity, inscrutableness, inscrutability, fuzziness, impenetrability, muddiness, deviousness, circuitousness, obscurity, faintness, dimness, ambiguousness, equivocalness, nebulousness, opaqueness, incoherence
